What follows is an extract from a chapter on Dr. Virginia Apgar from a new book by Berend Mets, MBChB, PhD, the Professor and Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at Penn State University College of Medicine, entitled “Leadership in Anaesthesia. Five Pioneers of the Deadly Quest for Surgical Insensibility.” The book is published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, and is available at berendmets.com.
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